But before “Sputnik” settles into a run-and-gun routine that feels like business as usual, it’s a gripping and gross B-movie made all ... Once there, she gets the full creepy picture ...

In the second half of the movie, Sputnik, broadly speaking ... If using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to the original material.

While that may be the film’s central metaphor, “Sputnik,” for Abramenko, is also an homage to Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” and the great sci-fi movies of the ’70s and ’80s, at the ...

But “Sputnik” isn’t set in a declining Soviet Union just to break out spiffy retro designs; the crumbling totalitarian edifice is central to the movie’s theme. Soon enough, we are let in ...